Awards and honours
Awards
1956–1995
Do you know what these awards, gifts and keepsakes are? They are flowers of consolation scattered along the stony, thorny, rugged and steep, untrodden road to death, making it more beautiful so we may forget its bitterness and pain.
- 1956
First prize at the International Humour Competition in Bordighera, Italy, for the story “Kazan Töreni” (Golden Palm).Italy
- 1957
First prize at the International Humour Competition in Bordighera, Italy, for the story “Fil Hamdi” (Golden Palm).Italy
- 1959
İstanbul Journalists’ Association first prize for newspaper columns.Türkiye
- 1966
First prize at Bulgaria’s International Humorous Stories Competition for “Vatani Vazife” (Golden Hedgehog).Bulgaria
- 1968
Üç Karagöz Oyunu won first prize at the 6th Karacan Awards.Türkiye
- 1969
“İnsanlar Uyanıyor” won first prize in the Krokodil International Humorous Stories Competition (Golden Crocodile).USSR
- 1970
“Çiçu” won the Turkish Language Association Theatre Award.Türkiye
- 1974
“Pırtlatan Bal” won second prize in the Arkın Children’s Literature Awards.Türkiye
- 1974
Lotus Prize of the Afro-Asian Writers’ Association.Philippines
- 1977
Hitar Petar Prize at the International Humour Book Competition in Gabrovo, Bulgaria.Bulgaria
- 1978
Yaşar Ne Yaşar Ne Yaşamaz won the Madaralı Novel Prize.Türkiye
- 1985
People’s Choice Author of the Year, chosen in a TÜYAP poll.Türkiye
- 1990
Guest of honour at the TÜYAP Book Fair.Türkiye
- 1990
Golden Tolstoy Award.USSR (present-day Russia)
- 1990
Vienna Theatre Award.Austria
- 1991
Awarded a knighthood by the French state.France
- 1993
Dionysos Poetry Prize.Türkiye
- 1993
Carl von Ossietzky Medal.Germany
- 1994
International Press Freedom Award of the US Committee to Protect Journalists (New York).USA
- 1995
Hiroshima Foundation Award — Editha Morris Foundation award for contributions to world peace.Sweden